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Account Director – London – FMCG - £45K

Our client is an integrated agency, Activating People to act in return for a benefit, regardless of the channel of communication. They are pushing the boundaries with their campaigns and use of mixed media, and are used to exceeding expectations. They are no strangers to awards, having won campaign of the year and corporate social responsibility multiple times.

The agency is at a really exciting stage where everyone has the opportunity to shape the agency to be how they want it to be. They want people who are excited by that kind of prospect, to really make a difference and take the agency on to great things.

This agency is looking to recruit an open minded and entrepreneurial Account Director to oversee a blue chip FMCG account, with a focus on household name health and beauty brands.

This Account Director will need to develop strategy and direct their team to develop compelling consumer and trade marketing communications, across digital, eCRM, sales promotion and experiential activity. They will lead though:

• Client liaison including presenting at regular meetings and development and maintenance of relationships at a senior level
• Financial management including preparing and managing campaign budgets, responsibility for team invoicing and management of team forecasts
• Creative management including running brainstorms, writing creative briefs, briefing creative, monitoring all team creative output
• Proactively drive new business development. The successful candidate will be tasked with leading organic growth within their current clients and may be asked to lead pitch team for new business

The right person will: be entrepreneurial, commercially minded, have creative flair, challenge the status quo, look to push the brief, be a strong people person – for client and team relationships, be looking to make their mark in an agency environment that is honest, open, fun and actively encouraging it’s people to get involved and drive change.

Essential experience and skills required for this position include:

• Proven experience of an Account Director, ideally within the health & beauty sector (at the very least they will need to have solid FMCG experience).
• They will have had exposure to all elements of the marketing mix, in particular the development and management of a large website and eCRM campaign (this is essential), and preferably Sales Promotion experience.
• They will have a thorough understanding of financial management from budgeting and tracking costs to invoicing and forecasting monthly profit figures.
• They will have excellent client management skills, have established and managed senior client contacts and a flair for presenting.


Salary: £45K + benefits including: laptop, mobile, good holiday, health insurance and an energetic working environment.

If you're interested in this role, please apply online or call Ali Wallace for more details on 0207 812 0664.

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